2019 OXFORD PROGRAM

WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

COOLEY LAW SCHOOL ’S

6TH ANNUAL STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM

JULY 1 – AUGUST 2, 2019

Western Michigan University Cooley Law School is pleased to announce its

6th annual American Bar Association (ABA)-approved foreign study program

in Oxford, England, during the summer of 2019. Law students will

study and live in Oxford for five weeks beginning July 1 and ending August 2.

The six-credit program will be housed at Hertford College, a University of Oxford

college. Three international and comparative law courses will be taught

by law professors and practitioners.

THE ACADEMIC PROGRAM MINI automobiles are manufactured in the area. The Western Michigan University Cooley Law School Foreign Study Program in Oxford has Students may opt to live and will attend been approved by the American Bar classes hosted at the beautiful and centrally Association’s Accreditation Committee of the located campus of Hertford College. The Section of Legal Education and Admissions to program director’s office will be on campus the Bar. The program was-inspected in July, too. Please note that the University of Oxford 2014, receiving approval through 2019. and Hertford College are not awarding credit Classes do not have prerequisites. Each course for this program. is conducted in English by law professors and practitioners and meet the requirements of the Hertford College is located on Catte Street ABA. across from Bodleian Library and Radcliffe Camera. It also is known for the Hertford Bridge. To see and learn more about the DATES OF PROGRAM college, go to http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/ .

Residence hall check-in begins June 30, 2019. There will be an orientation for all registrants that evening followed by a walking tour of the college. A Welcome Tea will be conducted during the first week. Classes begin Monday, July 1, and will be held during the day Monday through Friday with a few exceptions on Saturday. All courses will be conducted in classrooms on the very attractive campus of Hertford College in Oxford. The program ends on August 2. The schedule will permit The Hertford bridge students to visit many of the outstanding attractions in Oxford, such as Carfax Tower, HO HOULD TTEND Oxford Castle, Oxford Botanical Garden, High W S A Street, the Rivers Cherwell and Isis (the Thames), and Ashmolean Museum. U.S. law students with an interest in comparative and international law will benefit from this program. A limited number of LOCATION students participating in LL.B. programs in

other countries may also participate upon Oxford is about 50 miles west of London in approval. Finally, anyone interested in a Oxfordshire, a central southern county in summer study abroad program in one of the Great Britain. It is the oldest university town world’s great university towns, without a in the United Kingdom, home of the language barrier, should consider participating University of Oxford. Oxford is called the city in the Oxford Program. Approval must be of dreaming spires because of the churches and granted by the Associate Dean. university buildings. There are beautiful gardens; walking and cycling paths; and, a centralized historic city centre to explore. 2

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE 2.25 GPA. Students from law schools other than WMU-Cooley must ask their school to UNITED KINGDOM send a letter of current good standing and an

official transcript to Western Michigan The United States and the United Kingdom University Cooley Law School verifying the have their own laws regarding entry and exit above criteria. A limited number of requirements. It is strongly recommended that international students who are currently you refer to the United States Department of enrolled in good standing in an LL.B. program State website (e.g., in another country and are fluent in English https://travel.state.gov/content/travel.html ) may also apply. We may have participants and the UK Visas and Immigration website from our exchange program with the (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisatio University of Münster and affiliation with ns/uk-visas-and-immigration ) for information Western Michigan University. Others to determine what documents are required for interested are encouraged to contact the entry into and exit from these countries. A program. Inquiries should be directed to valid passport is required for U.S. citizens. [email protected] prior to submission Any student who is not a U.S. citizen should of an application. Approval must be granted refer to the UK Visa and Immigration website by the Associate Dean. for further entry information.

Last year, 5 J.D. students participated. Past participants were from Germany, Lebanon and Switzerland.

2019 will be the sixth year of WMU-Cooley’s Oxford Program. A maximum of 25 students can participate in the program.

All applicants must submit a completed application and a nonrefundable deposit of $250, which will be credited to tuition and fees, to Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. The deposit may be paid online, or by check or money order made payable to

The spiral staircase at Hertford Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY AND The application deadline is April 1, 2019. APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Download an application at: WMU-Cooley will consider applications from http://www.cooley.edu/foreignstudy/england. law students who are currently enrolled in html . good standing in an ABA-accredited or state- Applicants must also provide an official approved law school and have completed at transcript and certification from their law least one year of study. WMU-Cooley students school that they are currently in good must have completed 27 credits and have a standing. 3

Space is limited due to classroom size. Prior to PROGRAM April 1 students will be accepted on a first- come, first-accepted basis. Students applying The Oxford Program is five weeks. Students after April 1 will be considered and notified in will enroll in six credit hours. Three timely a timely manner if space is available. two-credit law courses will be offered. Final Send your application materials and deposit exams will be conducted at the end of the to: program. Exams are not given early or in advance. Students will be promptly notified Western Michigan University if classes are cancelled due to insufficient Cooley Law School enrollment. International Programs Office 2019 Oxford Program The 2019 schedule has been designed to enable 300 S. Capitol Avenue students to participate in WMU-Cooley’s Lansing, MI 48933 Toronto Program and then travel to Oxford to participate in that program. Many students Travel arrangements and accommodations will take advantage of this arrangement in should not be arranged before WMU-Cooley order to earn as many as twelve credits during officially notifies applicants of acceptance the summer. into the program.

LEGAL AND EXTRACURRICULAR DEPOSIT AND WITHDRAWAL POLICY EVENTS

Deposits are fully credited to tuition and fees. Visits to legal institutions in Oxford and The $250 deposit becomes nonrefundable on London will be scheduled. Although no April 1, 2019 in the case of withdrawal from academic credit will be awarded for these the program regardless of cause. The $200 visits, they will provide an important program activities fee and the $100 enrichment to the educational experience, and administrative fee paid to WMU-Cooley are students will be expected to accompany the nonrefundable in the case of withdrawal from professors and their classmates on these the Oxford study abroad program regardless excursions. In 2018, students traveled to of cause once approved to participate. For London to visit Middle Temple and had a legal other than complete withdrawals, tuition lecture. In a more social vein, they attended a refunds for the Oxford study abroad program welcome tea and a closing gala dinner. Similar are made according to the Summer Study events will take place in 2019. Abroad 2019 Student Guide . Students may not reduce the total number of credit hours for which they are registered as of 5:00 p.m. EDT HOUSING on Monday, June 17, 2019. Tuition is nonrefundable after that deadline. Students There are two housing options in Oxford. are responsible for housing costs including Students may live at Hertford College or find those WMU-Cooley incurs on their behalf. their own off campus housing. Students living in on campus housing will have a single room with a sink, telephone, internet access, desk and wardrobe. Bathrooms and facilities will be shared. 4

In 2019, a single room at Hertford College for Tuition 34 nights, with daily breakfast and lunch ñ WMU-Cooley students pay tuition at the Monday through Friday costs £2,980.50. school’s established rate. Honors Scholars Students who stay at Hertford College housing apply their scholarships to the cost of the are responsible for and, by their participation program. in the program, agree to pay for all housing ñ Guest students pay $650 per semester charges, including those incurred by WMU- hour. Cooley in advance on their behalf in reliance Housing at Hertford College on their application and deposit. (34 nights, with daily breakfast and lunch M-F, [£2,980.50] ...... $3,796 WMU-Cooley will provide additional Hertford College internet (£20) ...... 25 information and detailed reservation Administrative fee ...... 100 instructions for the Hertford College housing. Program activities fee ...... 200 Student Bar Association ...... 20 (WMU-Cooley students only) Financial Aid loan fee ...... 100 (WMU-Cooley students only)

Other estimated expenses for the five-week program:

Travel to and from Oxford ...... 1,500 Food ...... 1,169 Local transportation ...... 250 Supplies/books (est. $100 per course) ...... 350 Laundry ...... 150 The Hertford College quad Miscellaneous ...... 825 Supplemental health/accident insurance...... 80 TUITION , HOUSING COSTS AND FEES WMU-Cooley will issue a schedule/statement All tuition, housing costs and fees are made to each registrant. Payment in full is due on payable to the Western Michigan University April 22, 2019 (May 1, 2019 for guest students), Cooley Law School in U.S. funds. The estimate unless other arrangements have been of expenses for the five-week program (all in approved by WMU-Cooley. U.S. dollars) which is being used by the WMU- Cooley Financial Aid Office is as follows. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES FEE Keep in mind that prices will change with currency fluctuations (some figures were Each student pays a program activities fee that calculated based on currency exchange rates in helps cover the cost of group excursions as December 2018). well as social events and receptions.

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The State Department has new consular safety and security messaging. Carefully review this important information. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/inter national-travel/before-you-go/about-our-new- products.html The State Department issues a Travel Advisory for every country on the country’s own page. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/inter national-travel/International-Travel-Country- Information-Pages.html See a complete list of Hertford gardens Travel Advisories at https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/trave MEDICAL AND TRAVEL INSURANCE ladvisories/traveladvisories.html . The State

Department’s travel.state.gov site provides Students are required to have medical important information for U.S. citizens insurance with minimum requirements that considering and traveling internationally. include emergency evacuation and repatriation coverage. It is highly The U.S. State Department’s country specific recommended that students obtain travel information for the United Kingdom is at insurance too. Some travel insurance policies https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/inter may protect students from the loss of expenses national-travel/International-Travel-Country- such as air travel and housing in the event of Information-Pages/UnitedKingdom.html . withdrawal from the program. The financial aid budget includes the cost of medical Other countries have similar services. The web insurance. page for Canada’s service for its citizens is

http://travel.gc.ca/ . Participants must provide STATE DEPARTMENT TRAVEL proof of registration with their home country’s ADVISORIES , COUNTRY service. INFORMATION , STEP REGISTRATION , All registrants will be promptly notified if, AND ITHDRAWAL W prior to the start of the program, the U.S. State Department issues a Travel Warning or Alert Students who are U.S. citizens must provide covering the dates and locations of the proof of online registration with the United program. Registrants will have the States Department of State’s Smart Traveler opportunity to withdraw and obtain a full Enrollment Program (STEP) for your travel refund of all monies paid within 20 days after during the program: withdrawal. Please note that the State https://step.state.gov/step/ Students must Department has a new travel advisories and subscribe to receive up-to-date safety and alert system using levels and risk indicators. security information, and country information, for the countries in which they will be All students will be promptly notified if, studying. during the program, the U.S. State Department issues a Travel Warning or Alert covering the dates and locations of the program. Students 6 will have the opportunity to withdraw and program, and an opportunity will be provided will be refunded fees paid, except for room for that student to withdraw and obtain a full and board payments utilized prior to the date refund of all monies advanced. Refunds will of withdrawal. Refunds will be made within be made within 20 days after withdrawal. 20 days after withdrawal. Please note that the Once the program begins, a student who State Department has a new travel advisories withdraws due to any changes to course and alert system using levels and risk offerings or other significant aspects of the indicators. program will be refunded monies paid except for room and board payments utilized prior to TRANSPORTATION the date of withdrawal.

Students are responsible for their own PROGRAM CANCELLATION AND transportation to and from Oxford. Direct TERMINATION POLICY coach transportation to Oxford is available at Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport. This program will be held subject only to Additional transportation options are available minor adjustments due to emergencies, or from London. After you arrive, getting around subject to force majeure. In the unlikely event Oxford is easy and fun. of a cancellation, students will be notified promptly and all money advanced by students FINANCIAL AID shall be refunded within 20 days of cancellation. Best efforts will be made to Students should contact their home school’s arrange for each enrolled student to attend a Financial Aid Office to determine their similar program, if desired, in the event of eligibility for financial aid and the deadlines cancellation after a deposit is paid. Should the needed to assure disbursement of funds in a program be terminated after it begins, students timely manner. WMU-Cooley students who will be notified promptly and will be refunded are interested in the 2019 Oxford Program fees paid except for room and board payments should contact the WMU-Cooley Financial Aid utilized prior to the date of termination. Office immediately to determine their WMU-Cooley’s Oxford study abroad program eligibility for financial aid or how this program has never been cancelled. affects their current financial aid eligibility. A copy of the 2019 financial aid budget for this INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES program will also be available to all guest students. Any persons with special requirements should discuss them with the International Programs CHANGES TO COURSE OFFERINGS OR Office before registering. OTHER SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS OF THE PROGRAM COURSE SELECTION , CREDIT REQUIREMENT AND DROP /A DD Any changes to course offerings or other significant aspects of the program will be Students may only enroll in courses offered in communicated promptly to every student who this program and are not permitted to has paid a deposit or registered for the participate in such things as online courses,

7 externships, directed studies, law review and indicative of a student’s grasp of the subject law journal duties that take place at the same matter. WMU-Cooley does not practice grade time as the study abroad program. Students inflation. may not work during study abroad programs. ACADEMIC CREDIT AND RESIDENCE

Students must register for six semester hours Acceptance of credit and residence required of credit . Students may not reduce the total for graduation is at the discretion of each number of credit hours for which they are applicant’s law school. As each course meets registered as of 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, or exceeds ABA requirements, most ABA June 17, 2019. Students will be invoiced for schools will accept credit and grant the credit total as of that date. Tuition is appropriate residence. If your school will not, nonrefundable after this deadline. Students please contact WMU-Cooley Registrar Danielle are subject to the preceding conditions and the Hall at (517) 371-5140, ext. 2222, or e-mail him Summer Study Abroad 2019 Student Guide at [email protected]. Denial of credit or should they request to drop a course. residence frequently results from misunderstanding that can be resolved by GRADES direct conversation by WMU-Cooley and your dean or administrator. It is unlikely that Evaluation of students in each course will be participation in a single summer program may through a final examination. Students from be used to accelerate graduation. Students other law schools will be registering for these interested in acceleration should consult the courses as guest students, and credit for these appropriate administrator in their home classes will be presented on an official Western schools to review this issue in light of ABA Michigan University Cooley Law School Standards. transcript. It is the responsibility of guest students to contact their law school to assure LIBRARY RESOURCES that credit will transfer into their programs. Guest students should also consult with their Hertford College has library facilities available schools to determine the manner in which during the program. grades will be recorded on their schools’ transcripts. ACADEMIC PREPAREDNESS POLICY

At WMU-Cooley, most course grades are Each student at the WMU-Cooley bears based on written final examinations, responsibility to prepare and understand the administered and graded under a system that material assigned and to recite in class when assures student anonymity. called upon. If circumstances arise which

prevent the student from being prepared, it is Professors adhere to established grade the responsibility of the student to notify the definitions. Within that framework, each professor before class. Each professor may professor may score the examinations establish a specific preparedness policy for differently and create a separate grading scale each course. for each course. Grades at WMU-Cooley are known for being hard-earned and truly

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STUDENT ATTENDANCE POLICY https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/trave ladvisories/traveladvisories/worldwide- Attendance is the norm for every class session. caution.html There are no pre-excused absences in any class. Students should strive for full attendance but https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/inter keep their own records of any absences and the national-travel/International-Travel-Country- reasons for each absence. Students with Information-Pages/UnitedKingdom.html excessive absences can be dismissed from the https://step.state.gov/step/ class and may not be permitted to take examinations, receive credit for courses, or COURSE DESCRIPTIONS refunds. European Union Law-Institutional Aspects CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION 2 credits / Professor Doris Long

The University of Oxford and Hertford College Examines the laws and legal institutions of the are not awarding credit for this program. European Union (EU), including treaties, Students who successfully complete a WMU- directives, regulations, competition law, Cooley foreign study program receive a negative clearances, conflicts, jurisdiction, certificate suitable for framing and may note trade, litigation and EU law databases. on their curriculum vitae "Certificate, (applicable year e.g., 2019) Oxford Study International Human Rights Abroad Program, Western Michigan 2 credits / Professor Matthew Burton University Cooley Law School." It would be a misrepresentation to assert that you were a Covers the many aspects of international student of the University of Oxford and human rights law, including relevant basic Hertford College. international law concepts, the impact of international human rights law on the USA, cultural relativism (differing views of human TRAVEL INFORMATION rights), international enforcement mechanisms,

appropriate responses to human rights Currency Converter web page: violations, freedom of expression, limits to

human rights, indigenous rights, economic www.oanda.com/convert/classic social and cultural rights, women’s rights, and United Kingdom Travel: the right to democracy.

https://www.visitbritain.com/us/en International Law

2 credits / Professor Francis Grimal State Department / Consular / Travel

Information: Examines public international law, covering

sources of international law, international https://step.state.gov/step/ agreements, international organizations,

recognition of states, international claims and https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/trave use of force. ladvisories/traveladvisories.html

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DIRECTOR review and the participation of parliamentary committees in human rights reasoning. In David Tarrien will be the WMU-Cooley on-site addition to his doctoral thesis, he has an active director of the 2019 Toronto and Oxford interest in all areas of constitutional and Programs. He earned a B.A. from Concordia administrative law, human rights, public College and a J.D. from the Western Michigan international law, criminal law, jurisprudence, University Cooley Law School. Professor and political theory, and has published and Tarrien was in private practice before working presented in those areas. at WMU-Cooley. He joined the full-time faculty at WMU-Cooley in 2013. He Dr. Francis Grimal, Reader in Public previously served as a coordinator of the International Law, LLB (Hons) (Nottingham), Academic Resources Center before becoming a LLM (Reading), and PhD (Reading). Dr faculty supervisor and visiting professor. He Grimal completed his doctorate in also served as a coordinator of the Professional International Law at the University of Reading Exploration Program. He teaches Introduction in 2009, and he is a member of the Committee to Law, Advanced Writing, Research and of the International Law Association’s British Writing, Federal Disability Law, Law of Branch on Nuclear Weapons, Non- Cyberspace, Education Law, and Special Proliferation and Contemporary International Education Law. Professor Tarrien’s Law. His research interests include the use of community service activities include force, cyber warfare, UAV / combat drones, representing WMU-Cooley on the West nuclear non-proliferation, self-defence, and Michigan Presidents Compact Committee; and, international humanitarian law. Dr. Grimal serving as a board member for the Dyslexia has published in North American and Center of West Michigan and Arts in Motion. European international law journals. He is the founder and current board president of Friends of Dyslexia Education for West Dr. Grimal is the Book Review Editor as part of Michigan Children. He has been involved in the editorial board for the JUFIL – Journal on special education law. the Use of Force and International Law. The Journal on the Use of Force and International Law (JUFIL) is a peer reviewed journal FACULTY covering all aspects of the law governing the

use of force (jus ad bellum), as distinct from Matthew Burton , graduated with his LL.B. other related areas of international law. He Law (Hons) from the University of Leicester, has taught International Law in the Oxford an LL.M. from Sidney Sussex College, Program since 2014. University of Cambridge, and is in the final stages of his PhD at the University of Doris Estelle Long is Professor Emeritus and Birmingham. He has been a postgraduate former Director of the Center for Intellectual teaching assistant at the Birmingham Law Property, Information and Privacy Law at The School, University of Birmingham teaching John Marshall Law School (Chicago). She is a criminal law and currently is a teaching graduate of Cornell Law School (cum laude) associate at Bristol Law School, University of and holds a Certificate in Applied Bristol, teaching Contract Law, Criminal Law, Cybersecurity, from the Massachusetts Constitutional Rights and Law and State. His Institute of Technology and an Executive PhD examines the concept of political rights Education Certificate in Science, Technology 10 and Innovation Policy, from the Kennedy PARKING School of Government, Harvard University. Professor Long continues to teach Parking is extremely difficult in Oxford. courses in intellectual property, free speech, Information about parking at Hertford College technology and cybersecurity. She also teaches will be provided as it becomes available. courses on international aspects of intellectual Commercial parking is also available in the property law, including trade and sustainable area. development, and EU comparative law, abroad, most recently in Australia, Britain and FURTHER INFORMATION the Czech Republic. Long is the author of numerous books and articles including Upon approval of your application, you will textbooks on international intellectual property receive a detailed student handbook for the law and contracts, and a monthly column on Oxford Program. Anytime you have international intellectual property law (Global questions, we encourage you to contact us. IP) for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. She has lectured at conferences throughout the International Programs Director or United States and in over 38 countries on six Associate Dean continents, and has taught courses in eleven 2019 Oxford Program countries, including as a Fulbright Professor at International Programs Office Jiao Tung University, Shanghai, PRC. Before Western Michigan University joining the faculty of John Marshall, Long was Cooley Law School an attorney with the Washington, D.C. law 300 S. Capitol Avenue firms of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, Lansing, MI 48933 and Howrey and Simon where she specialized Phone: (517) 371-5140 in the areas of intellectual property, unfair Fax: (517) 334-5722 E-mail: [email protected] competition, entertainment, computer, antitrust and commercial law. She is fluent in

English, French and Spanish.

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OXFORD PROGRAM STUDENT CHECKLIST

INFORMATION TO WMU-COOLEY

ALL APPLICANTS :

□ Completed application form

□ Completed professionalism form

□ Completed housing form

□ Completed Student Guide acknowledgement form

□ $250 nonrefundable deposit (check or money order made payable to Western Michigan University Cooley Law School or contact us for online payment option; guest students may arrange to charge the deposit to a credit card)

□ Proof of valid passport

□ Proof of medical insurance

□ Proof of online registration with United States Department of State for your travel during the program: https://step.state.gov/step/

APPLICANTS FROM SCHOOLS OTHER THAN WMU-COOLEY :

□ Official law school transcript from home law school

□ Letter of good standing from home law school

□ Completed tuition/fee payment options form

□ Recent photograph

Western Michigan University Cooley Law School International Programs Office 300 S. Capitol Avenue Lansing, MI 48933 (517) 371-5140 [email protected] 12